I have to say, NIST dudes are/were so underappreciated by the likes of me. Is it just me? I was in a LUG in the DC area and one of the dudes there was a NIST

I have to say, NIST dudes are/were so underappreciated by the likes of me. Is it just me? I was in a LUG in the DC area and one of the dudes there was a NIST guy. His use of Linux and Unix was not surprising, but when he would tangentially mention what they were doing with their boxes I would always wonder: how the hell do more people not pay attention to NIST? But maybe that is just me. I have done a lot of sysadmin in the education industry, where we are famous for listening to no one and being the butt of security nightmare jokes. As someone who is weak in all post-high-school maths, and stats in general, I have definitely bookmarked this for later. I did not care for stats until I finally took my first true computation linguistics class, Statistical Methods for NLP, and years of wannabe linguistics without math seemed pretty retarded after that. Thanks for a cool link.